Hi, I would like to learn Plain TeX and I'm reading Knuth's "The TeXBook".At Chapter 7, Knuth talks about the \string command and how it converts control sequences into lists of characters tokens. Why when I typed \string\TeX I got "TeX, but when I wrote {\tt \string\TeX} I got \TeX?

I guess it's something related to \escapechar, because when I changed this control sequence the output changed too: